Last updated: 17 August 2026
The short version
Marque does not collect your data. There is no analytics, no advertising, no
tracking, and no account to create. Your shortlist and the assumptions behind
your cost estimates stay on your iPhone.
The app does make one kind of network request, and it is worth being precise
about it: when you open a car, it asks NHTSA for that model's crash-test
ratings. That request carries a model year, a make and a model name — the car
you are looking at, and nothing about you.
What the app stores
Everything you do in the app is stored on your device:
- Your shortlist — which cars you have saved, which of them are in the
comparison, and any note you write against one
- Your cost assumptions — mileage, how long you plan to keep a car, fuel
and electricity prices, insurance, sales tax, financing terms and any
incentive you enter
- Two preferences: how the browse list is sorted, and the filters you last
used
This is written to a private database inside the app's own container, in the
part of the device only this app can read. It is included in your iPhone backup
if you back the device up — an encrypted iCloud or local backup that belongs to
you and that we have no access to.
The one network request
Crash-test ratings are published by the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration, a US government agency, and change as new cars are tested. Rather
than ship a stale copy, the app asks for them when you open a car's page.
- Where it goes.
api.nhtsa.gov, over HTTPS.
- What it contains. A model year, a make and a model —
for example
2026 / Toyota / RAV4. That is the entire request.
- What it does not contain. No account, no device
identifier, no advertising identifier, no location, no IP-based profile we
build or keep, and nothing you have typed or saved. There is no user to
identify, because the app has no users in that sense.
- What we receive. Nothing. The request goes from your
iPhone straight to NHTSA. It does not pass through any server of ours,
because we do not run one.
- If you are offline. Every other part of the app works
normally — the 50,242-vehicle database is built into the app itself. The
crash-ratings section simply says it could not load.
NHTSA is subject to its own privacy policy, which is published at
nhtsa.gov/privacy-policy. Like
any web request, it will see the network address it came from; we neither see
nor receive that.
What the app does not do
- No account. No email address, no password, no sign-in of
any kind.
- No analytics or crash reporting. No third-party SDKs are
linked into the app at all.
- No advertising and no tracking. Nothing is shared with
data brokers or advertisers, and no advertising identifier is read.
- No location, contacts, photos, camera, microphone, health data or
notifications. The app never asks for a single permission.
- No selling of anything. The app is not a dealer, a
listings service or a lead generator, and it does not pass your interest in a
car to anybody.
Children
The app is rated 4+ and is safe for any age, but it collects nothing from
anyone, of any age, so there is no children's data to handle differently.
Changes to this policy
If the app ever collects anything, or talks to anywhere other than NHTSA,
this page changes before that version ships, and the date at the top changes with
it.
Contact
Questions about any of this: furniturewala@yahoo.com.